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Opera Software ASA has just revealed that a new stable version of the Opera browser has been released and is now available for download.

In today's open source roundup: Is Linux the right OS for the Alienware Steam Machine? Plus: Will the Alienware Steam Machine age well? And does SteamOS still have some growing to do?

Canonical's Autopilot for the OpenStack open source cloud automates setup and management of private clouds on Ubuntu Linux.

It has been awhile since the last announcement of an official release of Puppy Linux, 6.0.3 `Tahrpup', starting with 6.0 in October 2014. Mick Amadio, the coordinator for Puppy built from Slackware 14.1 binary packages, has brought Puppy to a new release, version 6.3. This is distinct from Puppy 6.0.x, which is built from Ubuntu Trusty Tahr binary packages, coordinated by Phil Broughton. Mick coordinated Puppy 5.7.x which is also built with Slackware packages. For the first time, Puppy is released in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Major updates for C# developers targeting iOS and Android. Xamarin has released version 4.0 of its cross-platform mobile suite for iOS, Android and Windows.…

The Ubuntu MATE developers usually post details about donations from the previous month, and regardless of what people might think, it's actually a very interesting read. The same is true for the month of October.

The new technology, unveiled DockerCon EU, provides enterprise deployment and management capabilities.

The NMI (non-masking interrupt) system in Linux has been a notorious patchwork for a long time, and Andy Lutomirski recently decided to try to clean it up. NMIs occur when something's wrong with the hardware underlying a running system.

MagicStick is a new PC-on-a-stick device that promises to be the most powerful launched until now, and it's in the middle of a very successful Indiegogo campaign. To top it all off, MagicStick will also provide the users with the option of loading it with Ubuntu Core.

Food and electronics don't usually mix well—unless you're cake hacking. I've been embedding electronics into edible cakes since 2008. And, in 2009, my group won the New York City Yahoo! Hackathon with a cake that showed rudimentary emojis via LEDs with emotions based Del.ico.us tags. read more

I have been using various Linux distros for many years now. One of the benefits is that I’ve seen many things improve and have been there to celebrate each success as it happened. Unfortunately, like any modern operating system, even the most modern Linux distributions are not without their challenges.

I will start this post with a disclaimer: I do not claim to be an expert on Linux desktops in any way, or by any stretch of the imagination. I am an ordinary Linux user, no more.

It comes as no surprise that Linux is the operating system of choice for supercomputers. What is surprising is that China is now the world's fastest growing supercomputer power while the US has fallen to its lowest level ever.

eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. You can use it to encrypt partitions and also directories that don't use a partition of their own, no matter the underlying filesystem, partition type, etc. This tutorial shows how to use eCryptfs to encrypt a directory on Debian Jessie.

The Ubuntu Touch OS has officially landed in Russia with the launch of the BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition, further increasing the reach of this operating system.

The Linux distro that doesn't stop Review OK, it was a slight delay – one week – but the latest Fedora, number 23, represents a significant update that was worth waiting for.…

The last chapter of The Open Organization talks about how a leader in an open community has to be a catalyst, "an agent that provokes or speeds significant change in action." When I read this definition, say it out loud, and reflect on my connotations of this word, I sense a degree of urgency. I don't think of a catalyst as necessary calculated, so I would like to explore the idea of a "calm catalyst." read more

DeeAnn is a nice lady. Recently widowed, she found herself unable to keep her house, so she sold it, put the money away, and found a place here with the rest of us. She invited me in and ushered me into her “office,” where her computer was set up amid a lot of half-emptied moving boxes and the sundry stuff that clutters our lives upon a change of residence. I wanted to do the “well, here’s yer problem right here” routine, but my sense of humor doesn’t always translate as, uh…funny.

We reported earlier about the immediate availability for download of the Beta build of the forthcoming Linux Mint 17.3 (Rosa) computer operating system, which is distributed as Cinnamon and MATE flavors.

Continuous delivery across AWS, Google Cloud and CloudFoundry. Netflix has released Spinnaker, an open-source tool for testing and rolling out software updates in the cloud.…